“Selection Bias: basically, that your inferences will be biased if you use a non-random sample and pretend that it’s random.” — Uri Bram Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to America is not necessarily a recession or even another terrorist attack. The greatest threat to America is a… — Lamar S. Smith Copy Share Image
It's human nature to make the complex manageable and determine things that fit your conclusions. That's bias. — Richard Burr Copy Share Image
“If you think being straight means you're being discriminated against, you're probably misreading your privilege.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
We love serious technology innovations, and there is a strong bias towards large technology innovations that are sort of disruptive to the… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
“Author compares the impact of biases to his experience as an average swimmer who overcame a considerable fear of water. While the… — Shankar Vedantam Copy Share Image
The whole Universe is on your side. Life is forever biased on the side of healing, on the side of overcoming, on… — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
There is a liberal bias. It's demonstrable. You look at some statistics. About 85 percent of the reporters who cover the White… — Evan Thomas Copy Share Image
If a man aspires for a political career, he can start at 18 and go on and on. This is not true… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
We must appraise civilization in relation to its territory and in relation to its duration. The character of the medium of communication… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people - and time does this - who are going to be severely embarrassed for their bias… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
Photographs freed from the scientific bias can, and indeed usually do, have double meanings, implied meanings, unintended meanings, can hint and insinuate,… — Peter C Bunnell Copy Share Image
Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it.… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“This book is dedicated to Israel's constructive and nuanced critics, whose rational voices are too often drowned out by the exaggerations, demonizations,… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In many ways, the physical dimension of life becomes less important as the soul enlarges. In my late twenties, I was astonished… — Wendy Lustbader Copy Share Image
Between hindsight bias, fake causality, positive bias, anchoring/priming, et cetera et cetera, and above all the dreaded confirmation bias, once an idea… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
When a reporter files a piece about Republican that slams Republican or law enforcement or hypes up climate change, there's no attempt… — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
“This is not hyperbole. It is possible for the average professor to have been taught by leftists, grown up in a left-leaning… — Lee Doren Copy Share Image
“Taxes fund wars, wars generate taxes; wars are engineered, taxes are imposed. More wars generate more taxes, more taxes fund more wars.… — Mamur Mustapha Copy Share Image
“The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a… — George Washington Copy Share Image
What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on… — Fatou Bensouda Copy Share Image
If you're trying to cut down the distance travelled from the farm to your plate, it makes sense to do the same… — Sheherazade Goldsmith Copy Share Image
We often value the exterior and superficial aspect of things more than their inner reality. Bad manners taint everything even justice and… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
“Attribution bias explains, at least in part, how long-held divisions in politics continue to propagate. It states that rival groups, whether Democrats… — Jared Yates Sexton Copy Share Image
By the accusation of liberal bias ... the institutions that conservatives revere - the military, corporate America, organized religion, and the powerful… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
[T]here is a methodological bias in favor of taking natural discourse literally, other things being equal. For example, unless there are clear… — Tyler Burge Copy Share Image
Any attempt to speak without speaking any particular language is not more hopeless than the attempt to have a religion that shall… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
All scientists have found that preconceived notions, dogmas, and all personal prejudice and bias, must be set aside, listening patiently, quietly and… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Media bias in editorials and columns is one thing. Media fraud in reporting 'facts' in news stories is something else. ...The issue… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When Ben Carson said that he would remove all federal funding for universities that had 'extreme political bias.' Who would decide what… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
Kant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific where flagrant personal bias, logic martyred in the cause of supporting a prejudice,… — Helen Thompson Woolley Copy Share Image
“Preacher pulled her gun to her lap, the trigger aimed toward the stranger. . . . He stared at her like he… — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
Are public school textbooks biased? Are they censored? The answer to both is yes. And the nature of the bias is clear:… — Paul Vitz Copy Share Image
In my own view, some advice about what should be known, about what technical education should be acquired, about the intense motivation… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
Call it a case of observer bias on my part, but Humanist Paganism seems to be an emerging option for those who… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
“Of course, like the brain itself, every technology has an inherent bias. It has within its physical form a predisposition toward being… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“responsibility bias is a major source of failed collaborations. Professional relationships disintegrate when entrepreneurs, inventors, investors, and executives feel that their partners… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image